Johnson administration expands migrant removals months after process began with evicting single men from city shelters to keep costs down.
Children play near a migrant shelter on the Lower West Side on June 4, 2024, in Chicago. The city recently announced it would begin migrant shelter evictions for entire families. Mayor Brandon Johnson’s administration has begun the process of removing from city shelters dozens of migrant families, including those with children who attended Chicago Public Schools.
“Going through this eviction process is stressful and very challenging for them,” said Alyssa Phillips, education attorney for the Chicago Coalition for the Homeless. Phillips said families were originally supposed to be evicted in the middle of the school year, but she and other advocates pushed back.
Maria Perez, center, hands out diapers, wipes and formula outside a migrant shelter on the Lower West Side on March 4, 2024, in Chicago. , said she has seen several families leave the shelters this week. She said she last saw those families standing on nearby street corners with their belongings and waiting for Uber drivers to pick them up.
Virginia de Jesus, a 27-year-old from Valencia, Venezuela, said she and her son arrived at a shelter on the Lower West Side two days ago and they have yet to receive any support from shelter workers. They were told by officials at the shelter that they needed to leave in 60 days, which de Jesus said was not enough time to find independent housing.
Sebastian Leal, 6, from Venezuela wears a cape while sweeping the ground outside a migrant shelter on the Lower West Side on June 12, 2024 ,in Chicago. The city recently announced it would begin migrant shelter evictions for families with school-age children. “They’re at some really sensitive developmental stages in their lives,” Merritt said. “They will end up behind in school.”
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